Michael Zhao (Yunfeng) received a Master's in Journalism from UC Berkeley in 2007, after working for Pulitzer Prize winning team of Joe Kahn and Jim Yardley out of Beijing Bureau of The New York Times.  His latest multimedia works at CHINA GREEN earned him prestigious awards (below).

While at Berkeley he shifted his focus from print to multimedia journalism and completed an interactive thesis about electronic waste.  His mini documentary eDump has been featured in numerous film festivals around the world. He has published numerous articles and photos in the New York Times, Forbes, The Economist, Far Eastern Economic Review,Berkeley Science Review, World Policy Journal and other publications (Selected pieces below).

As Managing Editor/Producer of CHINA GREEN with Asia Society Center on US-China Relations (2007~present), he runs and produces video and new media packages on China's environment, energy and climate issues.

Awards: China Green's "Clearing the Air: China's Environmental Challenge" project won the 2009 Asian American Journalists Association's Unlimited Subject Matter: Online National Journalism Award; The "Tibetan Plateau in Peril" project won the Society for News Design's Best of Multimedia Design Competition for the third quarter of 2008/09.